In the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then run around naked or nearly naked, hitting women with the animals' hides.

The Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums) dates back to the 1400s, and it holds Rome's symbol, the bronze Capitoline She-wolf. According to lore, the wolf nursed the half-wolf, half-god founders ...

Nevertheless, Rome’s founder and first king was honored among the Romans. From around the 3rd century BCE, the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus became the symbol of Rome. From around the 1st ...

It is because he is a Roman who absorbed his heritage from infancy, the way Romulus and Remus, the descendants of Aeneas, suckled in Rome’s essence from the Capitoline She-Wolf, whose statue ...